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True North

By: Kimberly Kafka

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For six years Bailey Lockhart has lived alone in the Alaskan bush, supporting herself from the cockpit of a floatplane. She is the only white woman in a land owned by the local Ingalik tribe; her closest neighbor is a fellow bush pilot and activist named Kash. Bailey and Kash are drawn to each other, but their fiercely independent natures keep them apart. When two Easterners hire Bailey to pilot them into the bush, a series of events is set in motion that will upset the delicate racial balance of the land and lead to violence. As the truth behind the couple's arrival becomes apparent, the refuge Bailey has created for herself shatters. Forced to face the demons of her unresolved past, she is given a chance to free herself at last from the secret that haunts her. Marked by spare, resonant prose and imbued with an indelible sense of place, True North tells a powerful story of adventure and survival. It is a welcome debut by a gifted new voice in literary fiction.

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Penguin

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1101213108

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9781101213100

Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay

By: Kimberly Campbell,Kristi Latimer

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Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay

By: Kimberly Campbell,Kristi Latimer

Love it or hate it, the five-paragraph essay is perhaps the most frequently taught form of writing in classrooms of yesterday and today. But have you ever actually seen five-paragraph essays outside of school walls? Have you ever found it in business writing, journalism, nonfiction, or any other genres that exist in the real world? Kimberly Hill Campbell and Kristi Latimer reviewed the research on the effectiveness of the form as a teaching tool and discovered that the research does not support the five-paragraph formula. In fact, research shows that the formula restricts creativity, emphasizes structure rather than content, does not improve standardized test scores, inadequately prepares students for college writing, and results in vapid writing. In Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay, Kimberly and Kristi show you how to reclaim the literary essay and create a program that encourages thoughtful writing in response to literature. They provide numerous strategies that stimulate student thinking, value unique insight, and encourage lively, personal writing, including the following: Close reading (which is the basis for writing about literature) Low-stakes writing options that support students' thinking as they read Collaboration in support of discussion, debate, and organizational structures that support writing as exploration A focus on students' writing process as foundational to content development and structure The use of model texts to write in the form of the literature students are reading and analyzingThe goal of reading and writing about literature is to push and challenge our students' thinking. We want students to know that their writing can convey something important: a unique view to share, defend, prove, delight, discover, and inspire. If we want our students to be more engaged, skilled writers, we need to move beyond the five-paragraph essay.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003843301

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9781003843306

Miranda's Vines

By: Kimberly Kafka

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Miranda's Vines

By: Kimberly Kafka

Miranda Perry has risen to the top of San Francisco’s competitive culinary world, and investors are willing to help her launch her own restaurant, but her life suddenly takes a different turn when she learns that her grandfather has died, leaving the family vineyard to her. Returning to Oregon, she is soon joined by her lifelong friend Bridie, who has suffered a debilitating injury. By returning to their roots, both women find unforeseen healing and hope, while helping each other through the challenges of accepting fate.Lyrical yet explicitly perceptive, Miranda’s Vinesweaves an unforgettable portrait of survival—both physical and emotional—with the rich textures of vineyard life.

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0452286174

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9780452286177

Miranda's Vines

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Miranda's Vines

By: Kimberly Kafka

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Doing Research to Improve Teaching and Learning

A Guide for College and University Faculty

By: Kimberly M. Williams

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Doing Research to Improve Teaching and Learning

A Guide for College and University Faculty

By: Kimberly M. Williams

Given the increased accountability at the college and university level, one of the most promising ways for faculty at institutions of higher education to improve their teaching is to capitalize upon their skills as researchers. This book is a step-by-step guide for doing research to inform and improve teaching and learning. With background and instruction about how to engage in these methodologies—including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods—Doing Research to Improve Teaching and Learning provides examples across disciplines of how to use one's research skills to improve teaching. This valuable resource equips faculty with the skills to collect and use different types of research evidence to improve teaching and learning in any college and university classroom. Special Features: Chapter openers highlight the questions and issues that will be addressed in each chapter. Recurring text boxes provide authentic examples from actual research studies, student work, and instructor reflections. Coverage of challenges, key successes, and lessons learned from classroom research presents a nuanced and complete understanding of the process.

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Routledge

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1317695593

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9781317695592

Real Estate Analysis in the Information Age

Techniques for Big Data and Statistical Modeling

By: Kimberly Winson-Geideman,Andy Krause,Clifford A. Lipscomb,Nick Evangelopoulos

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Real Estate Analysis in the Information Age

Techniques for Big Data and Statistical Modeling

By: Kimberly Winson-Geideman,Andy Krause,Clifford A. Lipscomb,Nick Evangelopoulos

The creation, accumulation, and use of copious amounts of data are driving rapid change across a wide variety of industries and academic disciplines. This ‘Big Data’ phenomenon is the result of recent developments in computational technology and improved data gathering techniques that have led to substantial innovation in the collection, storage, management, and analysis of data. Real Estate Analysis in the Information Age: Techniques for Big Data and Statistical Modeling focuses on the real estate discipline, guiding researchers and practitioners alike on the use of data-centric methods and analysis from applied and theoretical perspectives. In it, the authors detail the integration of Big Data into conventional real estate research and analysis. The book is process-oriented, not only describing Big Data and associated methods, but also showing the reader how to use these methods through case studies supported by supplemental online material. The running theme is the construction of efficient, transparent, and reproducible research through the systematic organization and application of data, both traditional and 'big'. The final chapters investigate legal issues, particularly related to those data that are publicly available, and conclude by speculating on the future of Big Data in real estate.

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Routledge

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1315311127

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9781315311128

Perfectionism and Contemporary Feminist Values

By: Kimberly A. Yuracko

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Perfectionism and Contemporary Feminist Values

By: Kimberly A. Yuracko

Although formal barriers to women's social and political participation have crumbled, society remains, to a significant degree, gendered in the roles that women and men play. Women's and men's choices regarding work and family are largely responsible for maintaining and reinforcing the differences. While feminists recognize the need to criticize women's choices, too often they focus on restrictive conditions rather than the choices themselves. Kimberly A. Yuracko argues instead that encouraging women to make choices in accordance with a grounded and well-defined conception of perfectionism—a philosopy concerned with human flourishing—is the most effective way to redress persistent gender inequality. To this end, Yuracko seeks not only to expose the perfectionism underlying current choice critiques, but to articulate a concrete set of feminist perfectionist principles that would improve the quality of individual women's lives and improve the social standing of women as a whole.

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Indiana University Press

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0253215803

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9780253215802

Guerrilla Aesthetics

Art, Memory, and the West German Urban Guerrilla

By: Kimberly Mair

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Guerrilla Aesthetics

Art, Memory, and the West German Urban Guerrilla

By: Kimberly Mair

The violent operations performed in the 1970s by West German urban guerrillas – such as the Red Army Faction (RAF) – were so vivid and incomprehensible that it seemed to be more urgent to produce spectacle than to be politically successful. In Guerrilla Aesthetics, Kimberly Mair challenges the assumption that these guerrillas sought to realize specific political goals. Instead, she tracks the guerrilla fighters’ plunge into an avant-garde-inspired negativity that rejected rationality and provoked the state. Focusing on the Red Decade of 1967 to 1977, which was characterized not only by terrorism and police brutality but also by counterculture aesthetics, Mair draws from archives, grey literatures, popular culture, art, and memorial and curatorial practices to explore the sensorial aspects of guerrilla communications performed by the RAF, as well as the 2nd of June Movement and the Socialist Patients' Collective. Turning to cultural and artistic responses to the decade and its legacy of raw public feelings, Mair also examines works by Eleanor Antin, Erin Cosgrove, Christoph Draeger, Bruce LaBruce, Gerhard Richter, and others. Reconsidering an enigmatic period in the history of terrorism, Guerrilla Aesthetics innovatively engages with the inherent connections between violence, performance, the senses, and memory.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773598758

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9780773598751

Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences

By: Kimberly Chabot Davis

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Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences

By: Kimberly Chabot Davis

Analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. This book presents case studies of audience responses to "The Piano", "Kiss of the Spider Woman", and "Northern Exposure". It argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement.

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Purdue University Press

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1557534799

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9781557534798

The Ghost and the Femme Fatale

By: Alice Kimberly,Cleo Coyle

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The Ghost and the Femme Fatale

By: Alice Kimberly,Cleo Coyle

A film festival gone noir gives bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her ghostly companion a big screen caper to solve in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly. The Movie Town Theater is holding its first ever Film Noir Festival, with Pen handling book sales for the guest speakers, including screen actress Hedda Geist. The legendary femme fatale has been out of the spotlight for decades. Unfortunately, the moment she steps back into it, she’s nearly killed. Then other guests start to die, and Penelope wants to know why her little town’s Film Noir weekend has taken a truly dark turn. With local police on the wrong track, Penelope enlists the help of Jack Shepard, P.I. Okay, so Jack hasn’t had a heartbeat since 1949, when he was gunned down in what is now Pen’s store. But the hard-boiled ghost actually remembers Hedda’s dark past and Penelope’s sure he can help solve this case—even if he and his license did expire more than fifty years ago...

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Penguin

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0425218384

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9780425218389

Percival Goodman

Architect - Planner - Teacher - Painter

By: Percival Goodman,Kimberly Elman Zarecor

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Percival Goodman

Architect - Planner - Teacher - Painter

By: Percival Goodman,Kimberly Elman Zarecor

Renowned as one of the most prolific synagogue architects in the United States.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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188491909X

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9781884919091

TV News Anchors and Journalistic Tradition

How Journalists Adapt to Technology

By: Kimberly Meltzer

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TV News Anchors and Journalistic Tradition

How Journalists Adapt to Technology

By: Kimberly Meltzer

Through the lens of TV news anchors, this book examines the impact that television news has had on traditional journalistic standards and practices. It provides a historical overview of the impact they have had on American journalism, uncovering the changing values, codes of behavior, and boundaries of the journalistic community.--[book cover].

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Peter Lang

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143310895X

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9781433108952

Tell Me What to Eat if I Have Celiac Disease

Nutrition You Can Live With

By: Kimberly A. Tessmer

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Tell Me What to Eat if I Have Celiac Disease

Nutrition You Can Live With

By: Kimberly A. Tessmer

Advice and recipes for those who need to follow a gluten-free diet: “Comprehensive and invaluable.”—Bonnie J. Kruszka, author of Eating Gluten-Free with Emily Currently, following a life-long gluten-free diet is the only means to treat celiac disease—and avoid the serious health conditions and unpleasant symptoms it can cause. Tell Me What to Eat if I Have Celiac Disease is an informative, non-technical book written to guide anyone with celiac disease to a better understanding of a gluten-free diet, including tips from those who have celiac disease themselves. This practical reference includes: a simple overview of the disease an easy-to-follow and updated food guide information on children and celiac disease, food labeling laws, and more recipes and advice from the celiac community an abundance of valuable resources

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1601639368

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9781601639363

The Spice Kitchen

Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices

By: Sara Engram,Katie Luber,Kimberly Toqe

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The Spice Kitchen

Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices

By: Sara Engram,Katie Luber,Kimberly Toqe

More than 100 delicious recipes for using herbs and spices to add vibrant flavors to your food at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and any time in between. From Spiced Yogurt and Granola Parfaits, to Strawberry Salad with Cinnamon-Balsamic Vinaigrette, Spiced Guacamole, Tarragon Chicken Potpie, Clove Spiced Caramel Corn, and more, this exciting cookbook is full of inventive recipes, information, and tips for using herbs and spices. Best of all, the recipes are easy and fuss free—a must for busy home cooks who want to spend less time in the kitchen and more time at the family table. And with dozens of full-color photographs and illustrations, The Spice Kitchen is as beautiful as it is practical. The Spice Kitchen changes everything, using herbs and spices to add special twists to favorite family recipes, from macaroni and cheese, to burgers, chicken salad, deviled eggs, and much more. It’s the only all-purpose cookbook for spicing up everyday meals. Not just exotic extras, spices from around the world make it easier—and much more fun—to turn out delicious and healthy food. The simple but flavorful recipes and ideas in The Spice Kitchen will make old family favorites new again—and bring everyone to the table.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740790625

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9780740790621

Reading Games

An Aesthetics of Play in Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett & Georges Perec

By: Kimberly Bohman-Kalaja

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Reading Games

An Aesthetics of Play in Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett & Georges Perec

By: Kimberly Bohman-Kalaja

In Reading Games, Kimberly Bohman-Kalaja guides us through an entertaining and instructive exploration of a neglected literary genre, the Play-Text. Focusing on the works of Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, and Georges Perec, Bohman-Kalaja's book provides insightful analysis of game and play theories, as well as a new perspective on the world of experimental fiction -- discovering, step by step, the innovative strategies of those authors who play reading games.

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564784738

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9781564784735

Florida

By: Kimberly Grant,Kim Grant,Paige R. Penland,Elaine Merrill

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Florida

By: Kimberly Grant,Kim Grant,Paige R. Penland,Elaine Merrill

Want to swim with dolphins, witness a space shuttle liftoff and rub shoulders with Mickey and Minnie ? Whether you seek escape or adventure, this jam-packed guide delivers the goods on the Sunshine State, from the steamy Everglades to the warm, white sands of America's best beaches. Miami essentials - deco delights, Cuban cuisine, nonstop nightclubs ; in-depth coverage of Disney World and Cher major theme parks ; the lowdown on hiking, cycling, canoeing, fishing and more ; food and lodging options to please all budgets ; 53 detailed maps, including special Miami map section.

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